WEST Bromwich Albion’s pursuit of Polish international Robert Lewandowski has stalled.

Albion manager Tony Mowbray has been firmly on the trail of the Lech Poznan marksman. But Poznan have put a £2.6?million price tag on the 20-year-old and Mowbray has no cash to spend.

Mowbray has been scouring the Continent and the Premier League to boost his attack for their survival battle with loan signings.

Albion have signed Arsenal’s Jay Simpson on loan while AS Nancy’s Marc-Antoine Fortune, Benfica’s Ariza Makukula, Lens’ Aruna Dindane and Real Mallorca’s Oscar Trejo have been targeted. But agreeing loan fees for them is proving to be problematic.

are on-going conversations with four or five clubs about different players.

“You can throw them all into the air and I will not say anything about any one player as that could be dead in the water. A club might want a £1?million loan fee knowing full well they can have him back in five months’ time.”

Right-back Jared Hodgkiss is set to return to Albion when his six-month loan spell at Aberdeen ends this week – Mowbray doesn’t think Aberdeen will be extending Hodgkiss’s stay due to financial reasons. He said: “I did speak to Jimmy Calderwood [Abderdeen manager] this week.

“He wasn’t definite about what was going to happen but it is a fair chance that Jared will be coming back. This is probably due to their financial position but Jimmy was very complimentary about Jared’s performances.”